Motorized Exercise Device and Methods of Exercise Learning

Abstract

The present invention concerns exercise robot suitable for rehabilitation and methods of its operation. The invention concerns in particular a method in which the exercise robot learns an exercise movement on the basis of movements conducted by the aid of a human assistant holding the leg of a patient and moving said leg with muscular form to conduct an exercise movement. The rehabilitation robot actively accompanies the exercise movement in an active compliance mode and records the movement so as to determine an exercise movement stored in the control unit of the device. The rehabilitation robot can then produce the determined exercise in an exercise mode.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates in a general manner to the fields of exercise devices, robotics and rehabilitation. More specifically, the present invention provides a motorized exercise device, methods for operating the exercise device, a method for determining and / or storing an exercise movement in a motorized exercise device, and methods for programming and / or configuring the motorized exercise device. The invention also relates to the learning of a exercise movement by an exercise device.Background Art and Problems Solved by the Invention[0002]The present invention is generally concerned with developing convenient and therapeutically efficient rehabilitation robots and with providing means of operating such robots in an efficient, convenient and therapeutically personalized manner.[0003]In the field of robotics applied to rehabilitation, powered robotic arms are used reproducing physiological articular trajectories and taking over or simulating the segmentary ...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a computer-controlled, motorized exercise device that can move a patient's limb and work with them to improve their strength and mobility. The device has a control unit that can detect the patient's movement and adjust the movement of the device to match it. This allows for a seamless and natural interaction between the patient and the device, promoting recovery and progress.

Problems solved by technology

However, in spite of using personal anthropometric parameters for determining exercises of a human subject, the algorithmically determined exercise parameters may not be entirely satisfactory for the subject.

Indeed, the algorithm may not take into account all the particularities of a human subject that determine an ideal exercise movement.

In the field of rehabilitation robots, the programming of a particular exercise, for example, the definition of a particular, complex exercise trajectory is very difficult and a time extensive task.

Furthermore, the exercises of rehabilitation robots are generally programmed by programmers, who do generally not have a particular feeling for or understanding of the forces and / or torque that are experienced by a human subject nor of the forces and / or torque a particular human subject can support without stress or damage to the musculoskeletal system.

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